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• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  old applications, which got me down to the Institute Archives, looking ... , and think about whether we want to change them.  Strategically, our essay questions are intended to prompt certain responses from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  pored over whatever I could find, usually defaulting to MSNBC or CNN to educate myself about anything that might be relevant to my 12-year-old self ... interview with the Graphics Editor, I knew I had a new goal to join the Times

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly ... before we realized we simply just needed to get outside of our room. We ventured outside behind Baker House, only to get knocked over by the blizzard

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  . Those accepting a spot on the Waiting List, need to choose another ... admission, simply need to move on, acknowledging that enrolling at MIT is not an option in the immediate future. This is what is supposed to happen

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  disguise...kind of) and still have managed not to pull an all-nighter (for ... studying, switching from mechanical engineering to a completely different ... classes because I couldn't decide from the syllabi which class I wanted to

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air ... my summer PDT at Dyess AFB in Abilene, TX. Dyess is home to the 7th

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  Congratulations to Italy on their World Cup victory. The celebration was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population. Italy is also home to 50+ MIT undergraduate and graduate students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  travelling.] For months, I've been looking forward to the day I'd be leaving for college. I talk to my future classmates daily, and it seems like ... for Atlanta (where I'll connect to my Boston flight), the fact that I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to ... industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first ... supervisor, past mentors, and other people whose advice I value, I decided to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you ... people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  lesson: I felt like there was never enough time to commute, do ... not enough time to have all the lives I wanted.' and I really felt that."]I cannot do everything I want to.[/annotation] And this teaches you how to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of student MIT was educating was being trained to conceive, design, operate ... the Institute writ-large, ought to work: [visually_hidden]We are awake

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  Vote to help them register to vote, be reminded about local elections, and even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic ... with institutions to make it available to their community members

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  had any advice they wanted to give to the upcoming class.     ... your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to recover. Trust me: You're better off learning to balance ambition and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  any excuses, I've been looking for ways to recharge myself and face the ... up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a ... Judith to the shores of our destination. As our ferry cast off from Point

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  myself, traveled over to Hanscom Air Force Base (about a 30 minute drive ... five weeks, we had been learning skills to help us in this exercise. From low crawling to how to challenge intruders, we had to know it all so

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... , however, is about making the switch from high school to college. If I had to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  than your high school in ways you can't even begin to imagine. A thousand ... a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ... to be above average. So one of the most important things you'll learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006